What are the responsibilities and job description for the Backend Staff Engineer position at RedBalloon?
Company: August Venture Talent
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Job Summary
August Venture Talent, a startup-focused recruiting firm, is serving as talent advisor to the founder of a well-funded B2B software startup in Boise, Idaho. (Local candidates strongly preferred, will consider relocation assistance. No remote work.)
We're seeking a highly skilled backend developer to join our client as a Staff Software Engineer. As one of the first 10 team members, you'll play a key role in shaping the architecture and engineering of our client's product and broader technical platform.
We are building this engineering team with the philosophy of hiring the smartest and most seasoned talent, all working together in Boise, and equipping each of those people with cutting-edge AI development tools to kill the drudgery of low-level tasks, unit tests, and documentation.
Unlike many early-stage startups, we offer a competitive salary, quarterly bonus, healthcare benefits and the strong equity you would expect as the contributor to a project with enormous potential. Current funding allows for at least two years of runway before revenue generation or additional funding is required.
THIS IS MORE THAN A JOB, IT IS AN INVITATION TO A TRANSFORMATIVE EXPERIENCE.
Responsibilities
Help to capture the long-term vision for our product roadmap, and work with teammates to convert that into a step-by-step plan for how to sequence the building of our product and technical platform to support it.
Assist with standing up our AWS datacenter systems in the cloud to support the product and platform.
Design and engineer back-end services for the product across web, desktop and mobile.
Engage with users and customers to understand how they think, what they need, and how to build the best product to serve them.
Work with teammates to set standards for writing code that is scalable, manageable, reliable, and testable.
Measurable Outcomes
RedBalloon posts jobs on behalf of client companies
Job Summary
August Venture Talent, a startup-focused recruiting firm, is serving as talent advisor to the founder of a well-funded B2B software startup in Boise, Idaho. (Local candidates strongly preferred, will consider relocation assistance. No remote work.)
We're seeking a highly skilled backend developer to join our client as a Staff Software Engineer. As one of the first 10 team members, you'll play a key role in shaping the architecture and engineering of our client's product and broader technical platform.
We are building this engineering team with the philosophy of hiring the smartest and most seasoned talent, all working together in Boise, and equipping each of those people with cutting-edge AI development tools to kill the drudgery of low-level tasks, unit tests, and documentation.
Unlike many early-stage startups, we offer a competitive salary, quarterly bonus, healthcare benefits and the strong equity you would expect as the contributor to a project with enormous potential. Current funding allows for at least two years of runway before revenue generation or additional funding is required.
THIS IS MORE THAN A JOB, IT IS AN INVITATION TO A TRANSFORMATIVE EXPERIENCE.
Responsibilities
Help to capture the long-term vision for our product roadmap, and work with teammates to convert that into a step-by-step plan for how to sequence the building of our product and technical platform to support it.
Assist with standing up our AWS datacenter systems in the cloud to support the product and platform.
Design and engineer back-end services for the product across web, desktop and mobile.
Engage with users and customers to understand how they think, what they need, and how to build the best product to serve them.
Work with teammates to set standards for writing code that is scalable, manageable, reliable, and testable.
Measurable Outcomes
- Stand up AWS infrastructure
- Build out database schemas
- Build, test and deploy the back-end services we need to ship our beta release
- Polish, revise, and iterate until we can ship our launch release
- Ability to set technical vision and standards for peers, and drive improvement in our use of technologies
- Functional breadth of knowledge across many areas of the technologies we are building in, and is self-driven in expanding knowledge when necessary
- Mentors others in developing problem solving expertise, and assists them with appropriate technology choices
- Contributes to architecting sustainable, self-healing systems and features that are fault tolerant, and instrumented for ease of troubleshooting when a fault occurs
- Consistently keeps teammates informed when shipping changes and making decisions that impact them
- Strong knowledge of our business objectives and product strategy to inform engineering decisions
- Shows interest in new technologies not immediately needed
- Understands the intricacies of some systems beyond the ones they are personally involved with; able to serve as a domain expert for the areas of primary focus
